Includes bibliographical references (p. [391]-409) and index

Part 1. How actions create our reality ... and how we can change it. 1. "Give me a lever long enough ... and single-handed I can move the world" -- 2. Does your organization have a learning disability? -- 3. Prisoners of the system, or prisoners of our own thinking? -- Part 2. The fifth discipline: the cornerstone of the learning organization. 4. The laws of the fifth discipline -- 5. A shift of mind -- 6. Nature's templates: identifying the patterns that control events -- 7. The principle of leverage -- 8. The art of seeing the forest and the trees -- Part 3. The core disciplines: building the learning organization. 9. Personal mastery -- 10. Mental models -- 11. Shared vision -- 12. Team learning -- Part 4. Prototypes. 13. Openness -- 14. Localness -- 15. A manager's time -- 16. Ending the war between work and family -- 17. Microworlds : the technology of the learning organization -- 18. The leader's new work -- Part 5. Coda. 19. A sixth discipline? -- 20. Rewriting the code -- 21. The indivisible whole -- Appendix 1: The learning disciplines -- Appendix 2: Systems archetypes -- Notes -- Acknowledgements -- Index

An MIT Professor's pathbreaking book on building "learning organizations" -- corporations that overcome inherent obstacles to learning and develop dynamic ways to pinpoint the threats that face them and to recognize new opportunities. Not only is the learning organization a new source of competitive advantage, it also offers a marvelously empowering approach to work, one which promises that, as Archimedes put it, "with a lever long enough...single-handed I can move the world."

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